In case you don't understand the frustration

...of Democrats with Joe Lieberman, it's not just about the war. It's not just that he let Bush kiss him. It's that he creepily tries both to support the Bush administration (sometimes to the point of wagging his finger at his own party) and to get credit for "voting the right way." He's not been fighting on our side for a long time, and this piece documents the history.

Now it's true that Lieberman earns high marks on Democratic interest group "report cards." That's because he plays a shell game in which liberal interest groups are complicit. He gets the "right" mark for voting against Samuel Alito's Supreme Court nomination, for instance. But he gives the Bush administration the vote it needs to make Alito a judge, by voting to stop a filibuster.

Similarly, he held back on voting for Clarence Thomas's nomination until the first Bush administration saw it had the votes. Then Lieberman could safely vote against Thomas and earn the "right" grade.

It's like that over and over. Or, heck, just being the guy who wants to be first to stand up for prudishness. Or the first to shake Republican hands and give them the cover of "bipartisanship." It's time to evict this faux Democrat in favor of the real thing.

(via kos)